Category: Microsoft
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 Released!
Today Veeam have launched the new Veeam Backup for Office Microsoft 365 v6! That’s right, it’s had a slight name change to align with Microsoft’s rebrand of Office 365 to Microsoft 365. Excited and want to check it out? Download it here. Veeam have also updated their Helpcenter ready to explain all the new features.…
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Certificate Verification Failure when Patching Veeam Backup for Office 365? You’re not alone!
UPDATE 18/08/2022: Veeam have an expired certificate impacting auto-updates for older versions of v6, this is fixed from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 Cumulative Patch P20220718 (6.0.0.400) onwards. As Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a is now available, I suggest updating to this instead due to important Microsoft Teams data protection changes. See KB4344 for the download link,…
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Backups, Trust, Boundaries, and Cloud Security Considerations in 2022
Cloud adoption continues to increase as organisations are either taking their first steps into the cloud, or progressing their IT strategies, whether it’s a full cloud migration, multi-cloud or delivering a hybrid architecture. A great workload to leverage the cloud has been as a backup repository. By using the cloud, we can meet multiple improvements…
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Key Changes in the New Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a Release
As the headline suggests, Veeam recently released a “version 3a“ of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Whilst there are your usual mixture of security fixes and bugs resolved, it actually brings a new (and welcome) change to the licensing structure around protecting Azure SQL workloads (not to be confused with Azure virtual machines running SQL…
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Fixed: Windows BitLocker Password Screen Auto Powering Off
Quick one from me today. I’ve had to fix this so many times I thought I may as well do a write up… If you’re like me and have no TPM but want to use BitLocker, or if you just see the security advantages to typing a password prior to unlocking your machine, then you’re…
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Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2022
After my last post highlighting the Veeam software that reaches end of support in 2022, I wanted to expand this further and discuss software that Veeam works with that will be approaching end of life in 2022. Why does this matter when I’m just trying to protect the data? Times change, and software changes with…
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Microsoft Teams Direct Routing & Audiocodes SBCs – Replaces Header
Microsoft have recently announced MC299922, aka “Direct Routing will stop processing SIP requests which have ‘Replaces’ headers”. The timescale is fairly aggressive as from the 3rd January 2022, Microsoft will start updating their platform to reject SIP requests that have ‘Replaces’ headers. Works are expected to be completed by mid-January 2022, and this is going…
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Quick Tip: How to fix camera flickering in Microsoft Teams
UPDATE MARCH 2024: THESE SETTINGS ONLY WORK FOR ‘CLASSIC TEAMS’ AS NO FEATURE EQUIVALENT CURRENTLY EXISTS FOR ‘NEW TEAMS’ For the last 18+ months, there’s been a huge increase in the number of video calls (apparently something to do with a pandemic?). For some people this has caused them a huge amount of frustration if…
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Veeam ONE Installation Error: Failed to Create Website
Hey everyone, Just a quick one from me here, I was playing about in my lab installing Veeam B&R and Veeam ONE v11a (because, why not?!), when I hit a strange issue. I’d snapshotted my VM prior to installing Veeam ONE so that I could revert back and try different methods (and play with automation).…
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Exchange Online: Subscribe Existing Members to Microsoft 365 Group Using PowerShell
Hi, So I recently had a case whereby a user was leveraging Microsoft 365 Groups for Microsoft Teams voicemails, but only some of the users were being emailed. Upon carrying out a message trace and eDiscovery I could confirm that the some users were in fact, not being emailed. With no service issues currently raised…
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 